The Silence of the Lambs is a thriller film adapted from Thomas Harris's novel of the same name, directed by jonathan demme and starring Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins.
The film is shown in America. From 65438 to 0992, the film won five awards at the 64th Academy Awards, including Best Film, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay, and also won the 49th Golden Globe Award for Best Drama and Cesar Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
The film tells the story that clarice, an intern agent, went to a prison to visit Dr. Hannibal, a psychiatrist, in order to pursue the clue of the killer Buffalo Bill. Hannibal gave clarice some clues, and finally clarice found Buffalo Bill and killed him.
Brief introduction to the story
Clarice is a trainee agent of the FBI. There have been a series of murders in her city. The murderer is a perverted murderer "Wild Bull Bill" who specializes in skinning women. Clarice was ordered to visit Dr. Hannibal, a psychiatrist, in a high-security prison, in order to obtain the criminal's psychological and behavioral information and help solve the case. Hannibal lecter, a middle-aged man with high IQ and quick thinking, is also a zee-oui. He asked clarice to tell his personal experience in exchange for his help. Soon, another female body was found. Clarice found two new clues: first, the victim's back was stripped of two diamond-shaped skin; Second, the victim had a cocoon the size of a little finger in his throat. According to the analysis of insect experts, this is a kind of moth from Asia, and it is called "Hell Worm".
Another woman was kidnapped, this time the senator's daughter. Clarice turned to the doctor for help, and the doctor still made a psychological analysis of her. Clarice said that the most painful memory of childhood was a period after his father died. Dr clarice was reminded that the characteristics of moths are changing, from insects to pupae and from pupae to moths. "Bull Bill" also wants to change. As a result of childhood abuse, Bill developed an abnormal psychology. He went to three transsexual surgery centers, but they were all rejected ... Their conversation was overheard by the attending doctor chilton. He wanted to win the first prize, so he tried Hannibal, but found nothing.
Later, the doctor was transferred to another prison. Clarice rushed to the scene. After some inquiries, Hannibal knew why clarice always heard the cries of lambs. But when she asked the doctor to name the murderer, chilton came with the guards and took clarice away. Soon, the doctor opened the handcuffs with the ballpoint pen silk left by chilton, killed the guard and ran away.
Clarice continued to search for clues alone, and gradually locked in a man named Zhan Mu Gam, because he had mentioned a box of live caterpillars from Surinam at the customs and had been to the sex change center. Clarice found the residence of Bull Bill, and she had a fierce contest with the murderer in the gloomy basement. Finally, clarice hit Zhan Mu and rescued the senator's daughter. "Bull Bill" was killed, but more dangerous people appeared again. At the celebration, clarice received a phone call from Dr. Hannibal. After the phone hung up, Hannibal put on sunglasses and silently walked into the crowd, looking for his prey-Chilton.
The narrative style has made a breakthrough
The Silence of the Lambs is a classic work that profoundly reflects American social crimes since 1990s. The story of the film inherits the tradition of Hollywood horror films, but the narrative mode of the film breaks through the mode of horror films and skillfully combines horror films with detective films. Although the film is scary on the surface, its plot develops step by step through reasoning. Although the scene of the film is mainly set in a closed indoor environment, lacking intense action, the plot of the whole film is confusing due to Hitchcock's suspense technique and psychological analysis method of modern horror films, which introduces the audience into a symbolic world of human subconscious. Through the discussion of psychological diseases of characters, the film tries to explore the roots of contemporary American social terror, deepens the theme of the film, and shows the strategy of carrying Tao in Hollywood writing.
The use of film language
This film makes good use of film language. This film is not only a detective film, but also a psychoanalytic film. In the film, the director used a lot of space to show the inner world of the characters and explore their psychological process. For example, every conversation between clarice and Hannibal is actually a process of psychoanalysis. Hannibal is experienced, and it is easy to find the psychological crux of clarice, so as to find out that she is different and attracted by her. Therefore, when others visit Hannibal, they will either get hurt or get nothing. Only clarice really helped and psychologically dealt with the prisoner who insulted her.
Dark lens processing, superb music application and non-positive violence scenes add thrilling tension to the film, and its artistic techniques are breathtaking. Hannibal's escape scene is particularly excellent, which is a model in the film. Hannibal's escape style is largely expressed through the introduction of characters, and the use of light, shadow and color creates an excellent atmosphere for the film. However, the omission of the process, which only shows the occurrence and result, is even more breathless, even more effective than direct performance. The open ending at the end of the film adds infinite meaning to the film, and only in this way can the film step into a higher artistic level.
Be praised for artistry
The Silence of the Lambs is a film with complicated plot and intense drama conflict, and it is also an excellent entertainment film. Its artistry is also highly respected. The spiritual confrontation, the sharp contrast between Angels and Demons, and the inner philosophy based on the slow rhythm left a deep impression on people, so they can leave a mark on the film history (judged by the jury of the 64th Academy Awards). Hannibal himself has both a devil side and an angel side. Clarice is Hannibal's angel. In addition to creating a horrible atmosphere, the social proposition of the film is also very chewy. In order to catch a homicidal maniac, the police have to turn to another homicidal maniac, which is very absurd and ironic in itself. The film has been looking for the source of terror in human society, and finally comes to the conclusion that "a criminal case is caused by the problem of order itself, thus endangering order", which makes the film have certain social significance on another level.
The characterization was very successful.
In the film, the actors performed very well. Jodie Foster once again showed her outstanding acting talent and created a brave and tenacious female spy image. She shows the emotional and psychological changes of the characters incisively and vividly, which is more vivid and touching. For example, the first time I saw Dr. Hannibal, I cried after being insulted and threatened by prisoners in prison; Wit and frankness in the dialogue with Dr. Hannibal; When I clashed with Bill Bull, all kinds of actions were particularly wonderful, such as being breathless with nervousness, shaking hands with a pistol when I was nervous in the dark, sitting on the ground nervously and accidentally, and shaking my hands even more when I shot Bill, so that I hated changing bullets.
Anthony Hopkins's performance as Dr. Hannibal lecter can be said to be the acme of performing arts. His performance in the film can really be called thrilling. His aura in the film is so strong that even if he just sits and says nothing, his expression is very expressive. His calm and gentle words and deeds still give people strong pressure, which makes people both awe and fascinated by him. Moreover, the music in the film is also very clever. Hannibal's aura was very strong, and the music at that time strengthened this power to some extent. Although he plays the villain, people don't hate him at all, but are deeply impressed by his charm. Anthony Hopkins's acting skills, in the film can be said to be played to the extreme.
Here are some explanations of some doubts in the film: (because many people say they can't understand the film reviews)
Why did Dr. Hannibal, who was originally polite, behave rudely and even insult her when she met a female parliamentarian? The initial feeling was that in order to solve the case, clarice provided some conditions for the doctor when he came to see a doctor, such as going to an island where petrels were flying and watching the blue sky and white clouds, so that he could study freely. However, Dr. Zidon lied to him and told him that the senator didn't agree at all. It was his hypocrisy towards politicians that made him impolite when he was dragged to parliament.
Hannibal pressed her finger when she returned clarice's papers. Some people know that it is because of her father's care and so on. Here, the author thinks that she has not reached her father's feelings at this time. It should just press her hand to express encouragement, which means a popular sentence on the internet, "I support you."
There are two scenes in the film. The woman wears a ring, indicating that she is married, which should be to protect herself. Women are weak and beautiful. Where are you going? Those men are eyeing up and saving trouble. Of course, it may be to make Dr. Crawford stop thinking about her, because according to Hannibal's analysis, he probably misses her.
Bill, the wild bull, makes human skin to make human skin. He put on his coat. As the film has said, he thinks he is a woman who wants plastic surgery, and three firms rejected him. He killed and skinned people like crazy.
Dr Crawford's alleged use of clarice. The author thinks so. Hannibal lecter is very dangerous. Usually send some powerful people to see him. But he is also a senior psychologist, so he is wary of them, doesn't trust them, and won't provide them with information to solve the case. That's why clarice was sent. The main reasons are: first, she looks weak and harmless; Second, she is excellent, and Crawford talks about her achievements, which can prove this. Third, Hannibal doesn't trust their people. Clarice is still a student, which can reduce his defensive psychology. Psychologists are not easy to deal with. Later, clarice found clues to arrest people and refused to go to the scene, which is a good proof. No matter what kind of fruit people give priority to protecting weaker individuals, which is universal. There's a conspiracy, yes, but not so much, Dr. Crawford versus clarice. And it seems that he is still interested in her.
When watching movies, I found some mistakes in English translation into Chinese, which made it more difficult for everyone to understand movies. For example, when Dancla Lisi and her colleagues and friends analyzed the first person killed by Bill, a wild bull, why was she the first person to disappear, but the third person to find the body? I think the subtitle translation is wrong. Why is this actually the case? It should be that this person is too fat. Buffalo Bill is trying to lose weight for her. If you don't lose weight, you can't meet the requirements of Buffalo Bill, so you didn't kill her first. Then they concluded that Buffalo Bill knew this person, so clarice went to the parents' home of the first missing person to investigate her friends and so on. From her friends, she knew that they had all been old ladies' body double. When clarice went to the old lady to inquire about the situation, he accidentally broke into Bill's house, and found many sewing machine lines with a big moth on them. This is the same as her idea, that is, the man is a good tailor and has moths. So the killer she found. You see, someone on the Internet said that she was a tiger, and a woman broke into the murderer's house by herself. No, it is a coincidence. I made a mistake when I asked the situation.
Finally, when Crawford said goodbye to clarice, she said that she didn't forget to call him, not clarice, but Dr. Hannibal called to wait for her answer. Earlier, her colleague told clarice that "phonecall" called and there was no translation in the movie, so some people couldn't understand it.
As for Crawford, who finally led clarice, is he jealous? Maybe. I think there is a lot of admiration here. Because I said from the beginning that clarice had attended his class, and the doctor only gave her an A-. Unexpectedly, in the end, he didn't catch the murderer, but was caught by the students. His psychology can be imagined, so I won't say much here.
In a word, The Silence of the Lambs's film covers a lot of content and needs to be watched many times to really understand it. The author watched the film three or four times just to write this comment, and then looked at the question sentence by sentence, only to find that it was almost enough. In a word, this film is a masterpiece that needs to be appreciated again and again.